January 2026, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit did something unusual: they publicly identified one of the hardest problems in modern military autonomy and put $100M behind solving it. The Autonomous Orchestrator Challenge confirmed what we’ve been building toward since day one. The future of defense isn’t about building better robots, it’s about orchestrating teams of them.
Today we’re announcing our $6M seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with continued support from Main Sequence Ventures. This funding accelerates our mission to solve what we call the “operator bottleneck”: the fundamental limitation that’s kept autonomous systems from reaching their full potential.
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Walk into any military operation today and you’ll see the problem immediately. Despite billions invested in autonomous technology, we’re still stuck in a one-to-one relationship: one operator controlling one robot, hunched over a laptop or game controller.
This isn’t a technology problem. It’s an orchestration problem. Modern autonomous systems are capable of incredible things individually, but we haven’t solved how to deploy them as coordinated teams at the speed and scale that real operations demand.
“Today, autonomy still means one operator controlling one robot, with remote controls or laptops, which fundamentally limits the number of autonomous systems that can be deployed,” says our Co-Founder Matthew Buffa. “In this drone warfare era, the next frontier is orchestration: how to manage and coordinate robotic teams at speed, at scale and under pressure.”
Breaker’s AI agent software changes the operator-to-robot ratio entirely. A single operator can now orchestrate teams of autonomous systems across air, land, and sea using natural voice commands over the radios they already carry.
The operator simply talks to their robotic team. Our onboard AI agents respond with real-time, context-aware actions, translating operator intent into coordinated machine behavior. This means operators stay focused on their mission, whether they’re driving a truck or flying a helicopter, while their autonomous teammates execute complex tasks in parallel.
Critically, everything runs entirely onboard each robot. No cloud dependency. No external networks. When communications are jammed or denied, our agents continue operating autonomously, making mission-aligned decisions at the edge. Because in real operations, you can’t count on connectivity.
This funding round puts Breaker in the top 25% of US seed rounds, and we’re honored to have Bessemer Venture Partners, known for backing Canva, Rocket Lab, Shopify, Anthropic, and Perplexity, leading this round.
“As outlined in Bessemer’s 2026 Defense Tech Roadmap, we are seeing a period of rapid transformation as uncrewed systems proliferate at scale,” says David Cowan, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Breaker’s on-robot agents will redefine how militaries deploy and manage autonomous systems.”
Our platform has been validated through demonstration contracts with the United States Special Operations Command and Defense Science and Technology Agency Singapore. These real-world deployments have proven that voice-controlled robotic orchestration isn’t science fiction. It’s operational reality.
This funding accelerates everything. We’re scaling our team across Austin and Sydney, deploying our platform to more partner organizations, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible when you turn small teams into force multipliers.
Defense technology has advanced more in the past 24 months than in the previous three decades, and we’re just getting started. The future isn’t about better robots. It’s about making them genuine teammates that understand and deliver on the mission.
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